It's always tough to be the new kid at a new school, but it's especially hard when you find out that the school bully replaced your drink with a bunch of worms (and even worse when you don't notice that he did before you start drinking).
What are you to do, other than throw one at him? With that, the war is on, and before Billy knows what hits him, he's made a bet with that bully Joe that he can eat not only one worm, but ten of them. And to make matters worse, the loser has to walk down the hall with a handful of worms in his pants.
So two days later, on Saturday, the boys in the school run from one scene to another trying to make up one worm dish after another in an effort to make Billy sick and lose the bet, but as the day wears on he gets more and more support from the other kids in school who are just happy that someone is finally standing up to Joe.
Surprisingly, Billy isn't getting sick, even though historically he's had a very weak stomach. Just riding in the car can make him sick, but here he is eating worms - and not just worms, but worms that have been grossified in all sorts of ways - and he's keeping them down. Who would have thought that being scare could be so good for your stomach?
One by one, the worms fall, and so too does Joe's aura of invincibility, so that at the end of the day Billy has gained newfound admiration from his new schoolmates. Even if he isn't quite one of them, he has at least gained a certain grudging respect for his willingness to stand toe-to-toe with them and honor his side of the bet, while time after time Joe has shown that he is only too willing to stoop to any level to win, and at the end of the day that costs him, but Billy shows that it's possible to have enough room in your heart that even the bully can have a place there.
Rated PG for crude humor and (apparently) simulated worm violence.
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